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For those on Windows, I find Capture2Text[0] to be a pretty great FOSS Screen OCR application: you press Win Q and select an area like the snipping tool would,
by feikname 5y ago
For those on Windows, I find Capture2Text[0] to be a pretty great FOSS Screen OCR application: you press Win Q and select an area like the snipping tool would, simple as that.
It also has some other snipping modes, supports more than english, and has the option to, after the OCR, immediately show a popup window where you can fix what the OCR inevitably failed to properly recognize.
I recommend use alongside a clipboard manager.
[0] http://capture2text.sourceforge.net http://capture2text.sourceforge.net
P.S. I recommend changing/disabling its Win E shortcut as that conflicts with Windows built-in shortcut for file explorer
- beagle3 5y agoIt is, however, based on Tesseract which works well on clean or scanned documents, but isn’t very good for text “in the wild” like street signs and not-parallel-to-view images. The Mac program uses VisionKit which does handle these cases better (not as well as google cloud vision from my outdated experience but way better than tesseract)